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washingtonFAMILY.com August 2014 11 THEME APPROACH: Fairfax County is flexible in HOW their schools encourage kids to read, but the School Board wasn't shy about issuing a mandate that all schools require rising 6th through 12th graders to read at least one book over the summer. Many of the junior and high schools focus on a theme and have a single title or a few books that relate to the theme. Having common texts and subject matter creates a community experience for the kids—and in many cases—for the staff. Rachel Carson Middle School in Fairfax has committed to its theme each year in a big way. Every staff member is expected to read the book along with the kids, staff t-shirts are printed with the theme, and the teachers incorporate the book and/or theme into classroom work. Not just English class—the science and math teachers are just as deep into the topic. Thomas Jefferson High School {TJ} for Science and Technology is on task for reading as you'd expect the tech types to be. They mix it up for their students to keep them on their toes. Last year, they had a single school-wide book, Drive, by Daniel H. Pink. The follow-up included a visit by the author. This year, TJ gets down to business with summer reading designated by the classes kids will take next year. If you've signed up for Oceanography, you get your choice of "down by the sea" books, and the AP Comp Sci types get to read their selections online. COMBINATION APPROACH: Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, VA, approaches its reading program in a manner consistent with its overall philosophy: meet kids where they are and inspire them to learn. Their students are encouraged to read and offered choices, incentives and/or projects to best fit their interests and their families' expectations. According to Ken Nysmith, School Director, Nysmith students read more than 10,000 books last summer. "Finding time to read every day establishes a good habit for kids of all ages. It's especially important for younger kids to read daily to build and maintain their vocabulary." School book selections are not arbitrary or meant to fluster kids or parents. Without exception, we heard about committees choosing the recommended books, which included teachers, administrators, librarians and even parents and students in some cases. It's important to realize the recommendations are just that. If they have objections to a selection, families can choose another book—but there's never a reason to opt out of reading! _________________________ Visit our Facebook page for additional resources! www.facebook.com/FAMILYMagazine wFm ASSIGNED SUMMER READING There are hundreds of books on the area's recommended reading listsc—heck out our website for links to a selection of the local school systems' posted lists. KINDERGARTEN TO 1st GRADE Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems Counting on Frank by Rod Clement 2nd TO 3rd GRADES Fly Guy vs. the Fly Swatter by Tedd Arnold Even Monsters Need Haircuts by Matthew McElligot Interrupting Chicken by David Stein Dr. Nicholas is Ridiculous by Dan Gutman 4th TO 5th GRADES Superfudge by Judy Blume The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles Hate that Cat by Sharon Creech The Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell RISING 6th AND MIDDLE SCHOOL Darth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Angleberger Almost Home by Joan Bauer About Average by Andrew Clements Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor HIGH SCHOOL Peak by Roland Smith The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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Eternal resilience are the two words the team at TouchPoint Media carries deep in their minds and their hearts.
We do so, not to have yet another catchy byline or tag, but to remind us of the real purpose of communication and its vital role in shaping lives and communities today and for tomorrow.
For many, solutions and communications are jumped at as a means to find fixes or to provide an answer, rather than being, in fact, that which it is – The very core of existence.
It is, after all, where it begins.
It marks the beginning of a solution, the beginning of a direction, command or request. It powers, it provides, it enhances, it loves, it can hate and it can kill.
TouchPoint Media was born when co-founder Laurie Ward and I grew tired of witnessing, first hand, communication stuff ups or interference almost everywhere we looked.
Problems and issues that were created, most often with the best of intentions. And after nearly 40 years each of being called upon to, constantly fix what had become broken we said "Enough!!" and devised the TouchPoint Media Model.
A company dedicated to pure communication.
We decided there are better ways.
Don't get me wrong….TouchPoint Media is still and excels in being problem solvers. A communications dedicated company with enormous capacity that can devise and harness strategy, develop the tools and generate the momentum to create environments that bring about outcomes, be they cause driven, retail, inspired, community focused, cultural, political or religious.
But our latest venture-Our Town Plus More is a pinnacle project for us. In so far as it began with a real and growing need from within regional communities to unravel decades of communications stuff ups. It had gone past the fix stage.
It was at the desperate stage.
And emerged as the need therefore to undo bright ideas that grew out of technology and eventually began to devour the very fabric of those communities.
This all began with a discussion late one night, after a long day of work and development as we yet again tried to address the issues facing a community that had been done over.
When we looked at it, it appeared like the issues facing so many regional communities-Like the bad communications science fiction movie where the techno robot destroys the town upon which it feeds. Destroying the town, and ultimately itself.
The World Wide Web hit town and took more retail out of town on its information super highway than it delivered.
Local Newspapers got sold to bigger and better groups and with their rationalization went local jobs, local know how and community engagement.
Radio stations were networked to the big smoke and TV gave more channels but a lot less on the ground heart and soul local content.
Communities in regional Australia, suddenly had technology eating at the very core of what has always made them great. Cooperation, local engagement and pride.
TouchPoint Media looked long and hard at it. The fix was to un-do the damage and put into place an eternal system that harnessed technology as the servant not the master.
This is a communications based model to technology engagement across whole communities.
It aims to re-connect community, re-engage business, and provides channels for local product and service export to bigger, wider markets and to capture and keep community buy-in, community spirit and local dollars.
It gives back news and information-in real time.
It allows the local communities to use their cooperative heart and soul to build resilience for the future. An eternal future.
And to contain and community manage and control it all from growth to issues management.
I do mean everything – From service capability to romance, to education, crime prevention, to medical can be distributed from this platform – In fact whatever the need now might be can be worked via the platform.
Now that's resilience.
That's why we call it Our Town 'Plus More'.
As the these communities grow and swell, ride out booms and busts, the Our Town Plus More platform will be there to give more to add more.
To use and drive communications ahead of the need for solutions.
Outcomes Plus More…always.
We've commenced the project in four areas in association with regional councils, with the support of three government departments, the lead agency being the Department of Science information Technology and the Arts, in association with the Department of Small Business and State Development.
They have provided councils with some seed funding to get the project off the ground, so this is the perfect collaboration between State, Regional Government and private enterprise.
It's an exciting project that will give the much needed connectivity back to these areas, give back the news and information sources they have lost, allow for local business to compete and now trade in other markets as well as provide service delivery that is unknown at this level anywhere in the world.
So while communications Gurus will preach finding solutions, At TouchPoint Media we're more about preventing them in the first place and creating lasting realistic communications.
Communication that brings communities together, that brings a public alive that focuses a constituency and brings the world local, rather than trying to make local -global.
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Ashley Willis sat nervously on the pool's edge, hands clenching the concrete wall, looking away from the water. Her cousins fearlessly splashed in the water, but Ashley needed a little persuading to take her first jump into the pool.
On a recent summer morning, Ashley had a special instructor with a lofty purpose. The tall, muscular 26-year-old who patiently helped the reluctant 8-year-old through the pool was Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones. And his mission was to help minority children like Ashley feel more at ease in the water.
"Do you breathe?" Jones asked the girl with braided hair after he guided her through the pool. She was attempting a freestyle stroke without taking many breaths.


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Do you have free samples?
We know it's tough to pick out a cologne without being able to smell it first! We have a Backpacker Cologne Sample Kit available in our shop. This is a really good way to get to know the regions and help you decide what scent suits you best. It also makes a really great gift!
Also, our retail partners have testers at their shops so you can try out our fragrances. Check out our Store Locator to find your closest shop.
What is Wilderness Perfume?
Wilderness perfume is what we make around campfires and on the trail in the backcountry mountains of the West. Wilderness Perfume is both a concept, an aromatic snapshot of a wild moment, and an ingredient: all of our products contain wilderness perfume.
Is Wilderness Perfume for men or women?
Both. The conventional fragrance industry would have you believe that musky is masculine and floral is feminine, but where do the sages and conifers of the West fall on that spectrum? Who does a spring day on Big Sur belong to? Everyone. While some of our seasonal products (like the Beard Oil) might imply gender exclusivity, our unisex wilderness perfumes are designed to be enjoyed by everyone who could use a shortcut to a wilderness experience.
What is "wildharvesting," and is it legal?
Yes, completely legal and totally sustainable. We harvest with permits from the Forest Service or permission from the landowner, and harvests are often done in conjunction with the Forest Service's fire-mitigation efforts. The places we gather our plants and tree trimmings from are like wild gardens to us, and we return to the same spots year after year so we can monitor our impact on the land.
What is a Field Lab Item?
Field Lab is our seasonal wilderness perfume, and it defines the outer, experimental edge of what we do. Produced in extremely small batches, our Field Lab products tend to sell out very quickly… some within hours of their release! Guarantee you'll be first in line for Field Lab products by signing up for our newsletter – you'll be among the first to hear about these exciting products as soon as they are available.
My soap is cloudy and I see separation occurring, is this normal?
Yes, our liquid soap does separate when it gets cold, and it makes the soap look sort of trippy. Heat slightly, shake the bottle, and bam—you're back to normal.
My incense won't light. Is it defective?
Our incense is made up of three simple ingredients: wildcrafted plant material, tree sap, and the wood stick. There are no artificial burning agents added to our incense, so from time to time a stick will burn out. Just re-light the incense using this technique that works for us 99% of the time: hold the stick completely vertical and pass the flame up and down the incense. Then really hold the flame on the end and that's it!
Can I buy your products from a store in my area?
Probably! Check out our Store Locator, which includes a growing number of shops in North America and beyond that carry our stuff. If you run out of Big Sur cologne while you're on holiday in Sweden, we've got you covered.
Why are your prices so high?
Harvesting and distilling our own fragrances is a little bit of a crazy undertaking from a cost perspective. Every bottle represents dozens of hours of hiking, foraging, and distillation, and we never cut corners on anything. Its takes 500 gallons of Redwood needles, for example, to make a single pint of essential oil. Everything we do is organic, and we never use the cheap synthetic ingredients that fill department store perfumes. The results are gorgeous, and once you've experienced them, we think you'll agree that wildcrafted is worth it.
I would like to talk to a real person. What day and time should I call?
Our offices are open from 9am to 5pm Pacific, from Monday to Thursday. We always try to answer the phone during this time. Or shoot us an email at email@example.com and we'll get back to you ASAP.
Where are you located? Are you open to the public for tours?
Both our offices and distillery are located in sunny Oakland, California. Unfortunately we are not open to the public.
Are you hiring?
You'll find all current openings on Craigslist. Even if we don't have a job posted, we're always looking to connect with quality folks who love what we do and are interested in joining the Juniper Ridge team. Send your resume to firstname.lastname@example.com, along with a short note about why you'd like to work with us and some of the skills you would bring to the organization.
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DECICE is a time-domain solver that uses discrete elements to model ice engineering problems. The elements undergo rigid body translation and rotation according to Newtonian mechanics, and interaction forces, both normal and tangential (resulting from friction), are modeled when bodies contact one another. Each body can be elastically deformable and fracturable under internal stress to produce new elements. The fracture model is based on Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria with a tension cutoff, and brittle failure modes can be either compressive, shear, tensile, or flexural.
External loads may be applied, such as those resulting from ship thrust, mooring lines, wind, or current. Ice buoyancy and weight can also be included. The 2-dimensional version is useful for modeling large-scale ice transport problems, such as ice movement between bridge piers, while the 3-dimensional version is applicable to icebreaking ships or general ice-structure interaction. The 3-dimensional version also includes an iceberg scour model for examining scour depth in the vicinity of buried pipelines. Examples of ice-structure interaction modeling include:
- modeling of an iceberg striking a subsea wellhead protection silo;
- collision between an iceberg and a moored spar;
- investigation of peak loads on conical structures;
- pack ice motion around a moored barge; and,
- modeling of ice arching between bridge piers.


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Guided Kansas Turkey Hunting Outfitter & Guide Service
Tallgrass Lodge is a full service Kansas hunting lodge and Kansas Turkey Hunting outfitter and guide service nestled into the flint hills of Northeast Kansas. Tallgrass Lodge provides fully guided Kansas Rio Grande turkey hunts and Kansas Eastern turkey hunts on thousands of acres loaded with free roaming Kansas wild turkeys. We have some of the best Kansas Rio Grande and Eastern Turkey Hunting in the State. Even though we hunt thousands of acres we keep our hunting pressure very low ensuring an exciting encounter with these elusive big game animals. Our fully Guided Kansas Turkey Hunts are two on one hunts. Two hunters to one guide. Your guide will do all of the calling for you or you can do the calling the choice is yours. We have a 98% success rate on guided turkey hunts!
2017 Kansas Turkey Hunting Rates
Guided Spring & Fall Kansas Turkey Hunts – $1350
4 nights / 3 days
What is included: Professional guide, three full meals a day, lodging, plenty of snacks and drinks, field transportation, and bird cleaning.
What is not included: Licenses, Permits, Taxes, and Gratuities.
Bag Limits: The bag limit on spring turkey hunts is two bearded turkey. The bag limit on fall turkey hunts is two birds, toms or hens.
Important Information for your Hunt
Kansas Turkey Hunting Seasons
Kansas Turkey Hunting Seasons
- Regular (firearm/archery): April 12 – May 31, 2016
- Archery-Only : April 3 – 11, 2016
- Youth/Disabled : April 1 – 11, 2016
- Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
- Legal Equipment: long, recurve, or compound bows, crossbows and shotguns and muzzleloading shotguns using shot sizes 2 through 9.
- Limit: Any individual who has purchased a spring turkey permit is eligible for one second turkey game tag. Spring game tags are valid for Units 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6.
- Archery/Shotgun : TBA
- Fall Turkey Permits in Units 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 and game tags for UNIT 2 ONLY may be purchased over the counter at any license vendor or online.
- No permits authorized in Unit 4.
- Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset.
- Legal Equipment: Shotguns and muzzleloading shotguns using shot sizes 2-9; long, recurve or compound bows and crossbows. Dogs may be used while hunting turkeys during the fall turkey season.
- Limit: Fall turkey permits may be purchased over-the-counter or online, and are valid in Units 1,2,3,5 and 6.
- Any individual with a fall turkey permit may purchase as many as three turkey game tags VALID IN UNIT 2 ONLY.
- Turkey permits and turkey game tags may be purchased online at www.ksoutdoors.com or from all license agents through Jan. 31, 2016.
Please go to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks website page for up to date details regarding Kansas turkey season dates.
Kansas Turkey Hunting Licenses and Permits
Kansas Turkey Hunting Licenses and Permits
Permits and licenses are not included in the package prices. It is the responsibility of the hunter to obtain the proper permits and licenses. Each hunter will need a Kansas Hunting license, a turkey permit valid for UNIT 3 and if you wish to harvest a second bird a second turkey game tag. The Non-Resident hunting license costs $72.50, the turkey permit costs $32.50 and the turkey game tag costs $22.50.
Please go to the the Kansas Wildlife and parks Web site page for further details.
Anyone born on or after July 1, 1957 must have completed a certified hunter safety course to hunt in Kansas. Please visit the KDWP home page for further information.
Deposits for Tallgrass Lodge
50% of your total package costs are due when you make your reservations. If you are booking a fall hunt (October – January) 100% of your balance is due by September 1st. If you are booking a spring hunt (April – May) your balance is due 60 days prior to your scheduled hunt.
Tallgrass Lodge Cancellation Policy
If you cancel before June 1st before your scheduled hunt your deposit will be refunded less a 10% processing fee. If you cancel after June 1st of the year of your hunt your entire deposit will be forfeited. If a member of your party does not show up for the hunt 100% of the price of the package booked is still due.
What to bring on your Kansas Turkey Hunt
What to bring on your Kansas Turkey Hunt
- Kansas Hunting License
- Kansas Turkey Permit
- Kansas Second Turkey Game Tag
- Gun or Bow
- Gun or Bow Case
- Season Appropriate Camo Clothing
- Comfortable Boots
- Hunter orange hat and vests to be worn to and from hunting site (We have hats and vests for sale)
- Decoys (optional)
- Flash Light (optional)
- Calls (optional)
- Binoculars (optional)
- Camera (optional)
- Cooler (optional)
The fully guided Kansas turkey hunts at Tallgrass Lodge are the finest in the state of Kansas. We have a 100% shot opportunity and a 98% kill rate. When you couple this kind of quality hunt with our impeccable service, gourmet food, professional guides, and world class accommodations it is no wonder why our guests book their Guided Kansas Turkey Hunts with Tallgrass Lodge season after season. Become a member of our family and I guarantee you will be back!


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I had a doctor's appointment in the morning, and I knew that I was going to have an ultrasound to check my cervix, but I was thinking it was just going to be an internal ultrasound. I thought it would only be a quick one, but I was pumped to find out that they wanted to take a peek at the babies too! Of course I wanted to see them too, so that just made my day. Any chance I can get to see them...
Here is Baby B--She is always the easiest to get pictures of, for some reason. I think she loves the camera already.
That's Baby B again, looking right at you!
And here is Baby A facing the camera. This is the only clear shot they could get of her. I think she's going to be my shy baby.
**Just to clarify---we are working on names and won't be calling them Baby A and Baby B forever. Now we just call them "the peanuts" and are dwindling down our name list. We have one name that is a definite, but the second name we are struggling with.
I also had to do a glucose test at my appointment which I was not looking forward to since I have heard some negative things about it, but honestly, it wasn't bad at all. I chose to go with the orange flavor and it tasted just like a super sweet orange pop. I think it helps that they keep the stuff cold.
I saw another doctor in the practice (Dr. Rinzler) who was very nice and super thorough. She said with twins I should be measuring one month ahead, and I measured exactly that, so I am on track! She also said my weight was right on track and my cervix looked perfect. The babies were breech during the ultrasound, but they will probably flip around. My glucose test came back ok and so did my thyroid, but my hemoglobin was low, so now I have to take an iron supplement which I am not looking forward to.
My mom and I had lunch and did some shopping yesterday after my appointment and when I came home, these little gems were in my mailbox.
I got them from Briar Claire on Etsy, and I LOVE them. I have a feeling my babies are not going to have much hair, but I love these headbands anyway! Etsy is a dangerous place!


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Shipping Policy
We pack and check everything carefully that leaves our office to make sure it is in the exact condition as stated. We cannot be responsible for the shipper. if your package is damaged you must contact the Post Office / shipper....... We reserve the right to change shippers at our discretion. This change will not raise the cost just the efficiency. Thank you Bulkoils


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16 March 2017
DDC's Chairman and CEO awarded the Gold Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit
On 13 March, upon the occasion of the Hungarian national holiday, János Szarkándi, Chairman and CEO of Duna-Dráva Cement Kft., was awarded the Golden Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit (Magyar Arany Érdemkereszt) in recognition of his several years of arduous and commendable efforts.
János Szarkándi received the award from Dr. Miklós Seszták, Minister of National Development, in a ceremony held on 13 March 2017 in Magyarság Háza (House of Hungarians), in recognition of his services as Chairman and CEO of Duna-Dráva Cement Kft., as President of the Hungarian Cement Concrete and Lime Association, and as founder of the "Duna-Dráva for Talents" scholarship program.
"I award him the Golden Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in recognition of his outstanding professional and public services, carried out both nationally and internationally with the aim to cater for the Hungarian national economy's need for high-quality construction materials in a socially responsible and environmentally conscious manner," reads the certificate issued on behalf of János Áder, President of the Republic.
In recent years, János Szarkándi has been bestowed with several awards by the State. In 2006, he was honoured with a Minister's Certificate of Merit, and in 2010, with a St. Barbara Medal for his outstanding professional achievements.
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Latest news
- HUF 7 billion modernization at the Vác Cement Plant
- An association for sustainable construction
- Duna-Dráva Cement Kft. to acquire company group


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Lora Northway, Thunder Bay artist, named 2015 Emerging Cultural Leader
Lora Northway is behind a number of youth art programs in Thunder Bay, Ont.
An artist and youth outreach worker in Thunder Bay, Ont. has won an award from a provincial arts organization.
Lora Northway has been named one of this year's Emerging Cultural Leaders by the Artist-Run Centres & Collectives of Ontario (ARCCO). The first-time award celebrates people who are "exceptional, emerging, creative champions."
The award came as a surprise, said Northway.
"I was really pumped," she said. "I think it's really nice to be seen and heard for your hard work."
Northway has worked at the artist-run Definitely Superior Art Gallery in Thunder Bay for seven years. In her role as the youth outreach coordinator, she said she tries to find new and fresh ways to engage young artists.
"Having a focus on youth is really important because they are the ones that are making a change and they're the ones that are the future leaders for these artist-run centres," she said.
As a highschool student in Thunder Bay, Northway said she had trouble finding arts programs that spoke to her. After graduating from university with an arts degree, she was determined to fill the gap by developing accessible programs for young artists.
She founded Definitely Superior's Die Active youth art collective, which is known for painting colourful graffiti art murals throughout the city.
She also helped start Neechee Studio, which runs workshops for Aboriginal youth; and inVisible Ink, an art and writing program for LGBT youth.
"She's given so much to the community, especially to youth," said Elizabeth Buset, who nominated Northway for the award. "Lora's approach is really authentic ... she really wants youth to feel ownership over the work that they're producing."
Northway will receive her award at a ceremony in Toronto on Saturday.
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No favours were done to Phil Jones when Alex Ferguson predicted he could "become the greatest player in Manchester United's history" and Bobby Charlton likened him to Duncan Edwards.
They were dangerous prophecies that would hang around the neck of a youngster, still adapting to the pressures of moving to Old Trafford for a significant fee, like a noose.
Still, when Jones played at the heart of the defence that won Manchester United's last league title as a 21-year-old in 2013, very few would have said Jones would only add 14 more England Caps to the fifth he picked up in that May's 1-1 draw with Republic of Ireland in Dublin.
Torrid injury problems
A torrid time with injury, specifically with a troublesome knee, has curtailed his progress since and his longest run of consecutive starts for United since he joined from Blackburn in 2011.
The knee injury he suffered in September was the 28th injury or illness he has picked up during his time at Old Trafford and with a 12-game absence, adding to the 84 he has missed whilst with United, robbing him of the chance to impress new manager Jose Mourinho, who emphasises the need for permanently fit players as Chris Smalling and Luke Shaw have harshly discovered, time seemed to be counting down for the defender.
As Mourinho was questioning Smalling and Shaw for their absence in the 1-3 win at Swansea, Jones had just finished his first 90 minutes since he featured in the 2-0 loss at Stoke on Boxing Day last year.
The 24-year-old has not missed a minute since as United have embarked on a mini 8-match unbeaten run.
The sight of Mourinho shouting in the defender's ear as United held on to win 1-2 at Crystal Palace on Wednesday night suggests he is now integral to the charge that is slowly building under the Portuguese coach.
The habit of drawing games that should have been won has not been eradicated with narrow victories over Palace or Spurs, but momentum is growing and central to that has been a resilience Mourinho has instilled since they were so resoundingly pummelled 4-0 by Chelsea.
The injury suffered to Eric Bailly at Stamford Bridge was perceived as salt to the wound of that defeat but it has instead presented an opportunity to Jones who has built a solid yet-makeshift pairing with Marcos Rojo.
Jones was outstanding in the draw at Everton, another game United were unfortunate not to win, and the defeat of Spurs and it spoke favourably of his form alongside Rojo that a returning Bailly, impressive at centre-half since making the £30 million switch from Villarreal, could only find room at right-back at Selhurst Park.
After two similarly injury-hit and underwhelming seasons under Louis Van Gaal, Rojo was another who seemed to be on his way out as Mourinho took the reins but he is too undergoing a resurgence. Jones and Rojo, a curious combination of two left-footers, still seem an odd couple but they are forming a dependable partnership.
"I think we're getting a really good understanding with each other" Jones told MUTV, "I know his game, he knows mine and we're complementing each other well at the moment and long may it continue."
Remarkable composure
Having developed a reputation for the eccentric in the form of wandering out of position, the facial expressions and the unorthodox methods that saw him once dive to head the ball away from Arsenal's Olivier Giroud's foot when he was shaping to shoot, Jones has been a picture of calm upon his return, not making a single foul in any of his 8 appearances for United this season.
It is a stunning statistic when considered Jones has had to deal with Romelu Lukaku and Harry Kane during this spell and the composure that has seen him make just 12 tackles across the 8 games has been required with Rojo displaying the rash thinking that nearly got him sent off for dangerous play against Everton and then against Palace.
Whilst Rojo was lucky to stay on the field for his wild lunge at Wilfried Zaha, Jones quietly held the back-line together and dealt well with the threat of Christian Benteke.
Though Palace were often too quick to go long towards their target-man, Jones remained resilient and won all four of his headers and limiting the home side to just 3 shots on target; one of them James McArthur's equaliser that was carved by Damien Delaney's superb, though wholly-unexpected, back-heel.
A recall seems to beckon
It is now over a year since Jones won his last England cap, coming on as a late substitute in the friendly win over France in November 2015, and a recall seems to be the natural next stage of the defender's long-awaited rehabilitation.
Mourinho, who has seen Jones benefit from working with his own trusted medical staff, certainly thinks a return will not be far away.
"He's giving hope to everyone that he can be back to normality," said the Portuguese. Jones will be aware though just how quickly that normality can evaporate into setback.
The defender will be cautious enough to take each game individually and he perhaps won't be considered as United's greatest ever player anytime soon, but his current run is enough for United, Mourinho and most importantly Jones, now with his injury hell firmly behind him.
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The next step was to add a few extra details to the apron pocket, plus it needed to be a bit steampunk. Luckily I had a few cogs and a small key but it needed something extra, my Dad came to the rescue with a tin from his shed. Apparently the tin was from my Grandads shed and contained lots of brass screws, bolts and copper nails. I filled two small glass vials with some of the tiny screws we found in the tin and I placed a couple of large brass studs or rivets in his apron and hand.
The last thing to be added to the apron pocket was a monocle and I felt it needed to be on a chain and I had a bright idea of using one of my lampwork glass dragon beads as well. So the little dragon became H.D.W's pet baby dragon Errol who holds onto the monocle as H.D.W tends to lose it.
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One of the most well-known birth injuries, cerebral palsy may be the result
of a botched delivery process. In a birth injury case currently at trial,
a family claims their teenage son's cerebral palsy was the outcome
of a rushed decision to use a vacuum extractor during birth. The mother
was in labor in March of 1998, and her physician, who is being sued for
malpractice, believed she was too exhausted to continue pushing her premature
baby out. The doctor decided to use a vacuum extractor device to pull
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which they claim caused the boy's condition, was due to the doctor's
being in a hurry at the time. The physician was on the phone with a BMW
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I grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY, about 75 miles north of NYC. I come from an Italian-American family where Christmas Eve is King of all Holidays. My grandfather lived in a small 2 BR apartment with comfortable eating space for 8 people, tops. That didn't stop us from jamming 20+ in that apartment every Christmas Eve.Needless to say, there was no fireplace. Papa did have a console TV heavier than my current car, and that baby was always tuned to WPIX on Christmas Eve.First thing me and my cousins did when getting home from church was put on the Yule Log. The background music was perfect while we waited for the dinner to be served. Everyone loved it. It really set the mood perfectly. We sang along, we yelled over it, we ate next to it, we made it part of our home.We kept the Yule Log as part of our tradition, year after year. Usually we kept it on for the entire broadcast, or at least until the wine caused the volume level in the room to get too loud!When the YL went off the air, it was like a piece of our Christmas had been stolen away from us. The cousins, now adults, talked about missing it like we missed a family member.When I came across this website, it was like I had been re-united with an old friend. The subsequent rebroadcasts of the YL, and the finding of all the folks who also loved this tradition was so wonderful.Now, as an adult, I'm passing the YL on to my kids. (I'm in NJ now, so WPIX will still be a part of my Christmas Eve). I hope the YL becomes part of their traditions just as it did mine.
Joe SassoneNew Jersey
Story from Barbara Mastroddi:
I'm not sure how my fascination with the Yule Log began, but I do remember from the time I was around 7 or 8 (going back to 1969-'70) seeing commercials on (the former) WPIX for 'the burning of the Yule Log'. My first viewing was roughly around that time, when my family and I spent Christmas Eve in my grandparents' apartment in Yonkers, after enjoying a hearty Italian Christmas Eve repast of seafood, macaroni, and presents.
Cut to a few years after, when my parents took on the tradition of Christmas Eve dinner. It was usually us (me, my sister, baby brother, mom, dad, and my aunt, uncle and cousin Chris) who ate a hearty Italian style fish and macaroni dinner, then retired to the living room to have cookies, and watch the Yule Log. Or rather, it was my cousin, my sister and me (my dad would put it on, but fall asleep on the sofa). Somehow, we started getting into the habit of counting how many carols were sung. Never actually kept track of how many versions of what song was played. There was something comforting about that crackling log on the TV screen, in a living room that was darkened except for the bright lights on the tree in the corner. I looked forward to that somewhat corny but beloved tradition each Christmas Eve.
By the time I was an adult, I didn't avidly follow the Yule Log, but took it for granted it'd be on. Imagine my disappointment during the 90s when it seemed that the Yule Log was just a memory of things past. I often mused that I should put together a video of a Yule Log burning in a fireplace, with carols in the background -- yes, people thought I was a bit nuts about that (including my husband).
So imagine my surprise and delight when, in late 2001, I learned that the Yule Log was returning to Channel 11. Needless to say, I watched with rapt attention that year, and have since made the viewing of the Yule Log on Christmas morning a part of my holiday tradition, much as I did back when I was a kid. And although I now live in a home where I can burn my own Yule Log anytime, that famous video clip, for me, is nice nod to my Christmases past, a time when life did seem somewhat simpler, less worrisome, but no less enjoyable than it does now.
Somehow, I wonder if the younger kids will ever get what the Yule Log is all about -- a number of years ago, my (then) 9 year old niece failed to understand my fascination with the Yule Log, and my daughter (who was born around Christmas 2003, and sat with me in my hospital bed with the Yule Log on that morning) will watch, but ask for me to put something else on instead.
Barbara Mastroddi
Story from Theresa:
I come from a very large Italian family. For us, Christmas Eve was, and still is, the main evening of celebration. My Mother, Aunt's, and Grandmother would converge in the kitchen to prepare the annual feast. My Father, and Uncles would make sure that everyone had a chair around the huge dining room table.
My cousins and I were relegated to, you guessed it, the children's table! It was the best place to be as far as we were concerned because it was placed in the center of the living room, within a few feet of the television set.
Christmas Eve Dinner would start about 8pm. At 11pm we would pause and the entire family would go to Midnight Mass. Back in 1966 and the years that followed the Yule Log aired just after The Midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral. Upon returning to Nonie's house my cousins and I would gather in the living room to watch and listen to The Yule Log. Sometimes we or an Aunt or Uncle would break into song when a favorite carol played. Nonie would bring into us her famous anisette cookies (flavored with anise oil, not the liquor) and milk. Laughter, love, and music from the Yule Log filled that house. What a time it was!
The WPIX Yule Log never fails to bring me back to that innocent, wonderful time. Although my family is scattered now we all come together in spirit each time the Yule Log airs. I am so very thankful it's back to be the backdrop for new memories in the years to come.
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A One-Day Snapshot of Aboriginal Youth in Custody Across Canada : Phase II
4. SHARING CIRCLE RESULTS (cont'd)
- 4.1 Life on the Outside (Past)
- 4.1.1 Family Life
- 4.1.2 Racism
- 4.1.3 Substance Abuse
- 4.1.4 Organized Gangs
- 4.2 Life on the Inside (Present)
- 4.2.1 Custodial Staff
- 4.2.2 Suicide
4. SHARING CIRCLE RESULTS (cont'd)
The two central goals of the Sharing Circle research were to better understand the experiences of Aboriginal youth in custody and to identify potential strategies to reduce future incarceration from the perspective of the participants. The Sharing Circle Team conducted 41 Sharing Circles with approximately 250 Aboriginal youth in 11 different custody facilities (see Appendix C for a list of facilities). The data from the Sharing Circles have been aggregated so that individual institutions are not identifiable. Twelve central themes emerged from the data and were organized into three distinct time-frames. [13]
Life on the Outside (Past)
- Family Life
- Racism
- Substance Abuse
- Organized Gangs
Life on the Inside (Present)
- Custodial Staff
- Suicide
- Gender
- Custody/Probation
Solutions (Future)
- Cultural Programming
- Mentoring
- General Programming
- Community Service
4.1 Life on the Outside (Past)
There were several common experiences among many of the Sharing Circle participants concerning their life prior to incarceration, particularly within their families of origin (e.g., victimization and substance abuse) and within the criminal justice system (e.g., racism).
4.1.1 Family Life
"Why are we victims? Why are we making victims?"
The Sharing Circles provided an opportunity for the participants to reflect on the cycle of dysfunction within their families of origin. Many spoke of physical, sexual and emotional abuse and neglect, but in general terms. A few participants provided more specific comments on their feelings of shame, betrayal and anger due to their childhood victimization.
"I feel dirty and ashamed…it is my family that did it to me."
"…it makes me angry to talk about it.""
"I had to move away from home because I was scared of being abused."
There was overwhelming agreement among the participants that substance abuse within their families was an acute problem.
"Don't drink and do drugs? It's pretty hard when that is what it is like at home."
"There are always people at my house having parties and I don't want to go back home, people would be drunk…"
In addition, some participants spoke of criminality within their families, with many parents, siblings and extended family members serving federal custodial sentences. Exposure to suicide amongst family members was also commonplace for participants in the Sharing Circles. Finally, there was an expressed sense of frustration that, according to some participants, there are no acceptable options available to them if their homes are not appropriate environments.
"I don't want to be at home, but I don't want to be a ward of the state."
4.1.2 Racism
"…they feel like I am dirty, because I am Aboriginal."
One of the more consistent experiences expressed by the participants was the sense that mainstream society, and particularly the criminal justice system, is overtly racist. The incidents described were not typical of covert systemic racism often ascribed to the system. Rather, these were direct, deleterious comments said to the participants by criminal justice professionals. The descriptions of racism shared a common element - the notion that Aboriginals are perceived as 'dirty' and 'alcoholic'.
"I hear racist comments like dirty Indian, go back to the bush."
"…all Indians are drunk Indians."
Some Sharing Circle participants also experienced unfair treatment by criminal justice professionals, in their opinion, based solely on the fact that they were Aboriginal.
"They won't allow natives to hang together, because we are suspected of being in a gang."
"They just treat Aboriginals like dirt… we are not treated with respect."
4.1.3 Substance Abuse
"Drugs and alcohol…really took me down."
Participants in the Sharing Circles dealt with serious substance abuse issues, particularly alcohol and cocaine addiction. Some of the participants explained that alcohol and drugs were used as an escape from their reality. There was an initial positive experience described with their substance of choice. Eventually, however, there were serious negative experiences wherein participants committed their offences while intoxicated or in order to obtain drugs/alcohol. The positive effects disappeared and there was often very serious consequences including incarceration and suicides/overdoses among their peers.
"I feel no one is there to care about me…so then I go to drugs and alcohol to try not to think about it as much as possible."
"It is always there…drugs."
"Drinking and drugs…causes and leads to suicide."
4.1.4 Organized Gangs
"Gangs are stupid to join, but even stupider to quit."
Sharing Circle participants identified participation in organized gangs as a serious issue. Joining a gang provided some participants with self-esteem, confidence and a sense of belonging that was missing from their families. Gangs were also viewed as a means of protection and as a source of excitement, power and drugs.
"The gang is my family."
"You have to protect yourself, do what you need to do to survive."
As with substance abuse, however, the positive consequences were overshadowed by a sense of entrapment. Some participants believed that they were forced into participating in a gang because their older family members and friends were already gang members. All participants agreed that once you were in gang, leaving was extremely difficult. Those who attempted to leave were assaulted and punished for such behaviour.
"It's hard because…I have family members in the gang…it is hard…"
"I have seen a lot of people commit suicide as a way out of the gang."
"Hard to get out of the gang, they will turn on you, stab you…"
"Have to relocate where you live if you don't want to be part of a gang…even then they will find you."
4.2 Life on the Inside (Present)
As with their experiences prior to incarceration, the participants in the Sharing Circles described common experiences inside custody facilities.
4.2.1 Custodial Staff
"I have been told by staff that I am a loser and a lowlife and some praise me and have hope for me."
The comments regarding custodial staff were both positive and negative. To many of the participants, it was often not the credentials of the staff members that were relevant to their experience. Rather, it was the personality of the individual who held the position that was important. Many participants also believed that their relationships with many staff lacked respect and fairness.
"Some of the staff have good personalities, make me laugh, make me feel good about myself."
"Staff seem to have no hope or trust in us, they keep on saying that we will be back right away. I feel like they are not trying to help me, they are just putting me down."
"…like going to bathroom, I ask three times and I don't get to go…I want to be respected for that, I don't want to have to wait and wait."
An overarching theme throughout the Sharing Circles was a lack of trust expressed by the participants. Most do not trust the system and do not trust the professionals within the system. Moreover, they fear that staff share personal information with others, even with a promise of confidentiality.
"It's a trust thing…"
"They write down everything, and it gets put on your file and everyone reads it and I don't want that getting around and everyone knowing my business."
4.2.2 Suicide
"When I tell staff how I am feeling they stick me in isolation…and sticking me in the hole makes me feel more depressed."
Suicidal thoughts, self-harm and attempted suicide were reported by participants as prevalent not only within custody but in their communities as well.
"It's hard to give people hope, that there is more to live for."
"Everyone knows some one who committed suicide."
Many participants in the Sharing Circles were critical towards the policies inside custody facilities that direct staff on how to deal with youth who reveal suicidal thoughts and feelings. According to the participants, if a youth indicates he is feeling suicidal to staff, he is immediately isolated in a holding cell, stripped of personal clothing and possessions, dressed in a gown, and observed every few minutes. Such practices appeared counterintuitive to the participants and clearly discouraged them from expressing suicidal thoughts. The system responded to their despondency with a practice that, in the eyes of the participants, punished them.
"There is no one you can talk to in this place without fear of them putting you in the hole."
"Most people are scared to say yes they are suicidal, because they don't want to go to the hole."
[13]These time-frames are somewhat artificial as the themes within them are not necessarily mutually exclusive to the specified period of time. The Sharing Circle participants continued to deal with issues such as substance abuse and youth gangs, for example, during their period of incarceration.
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Cederqvist's practice spans over film, sculpture, textiles and performance, proposing a spatial experience, embodiment and activism. Her works often suggests a layered narrative and a strong sense of transformation, as if they were in a constant making – the recent series of works Gestures and Gaps (2015) being a good example of this. Presently she's working with an interdisciplinary project in many parts that explores instincts, trust and loss of control.
"Through the act of playing, and study of knowledge production, personal growth, behavioral science and the use of expectations and suspense, my on-going practice if set to manifest the importance of physical understanding and a non-rational and multi-layered communication. Inherent lies the investigation of everyday magic, meaning making, spatial drama and co-creative processes."
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A Lancaster man said he left his loaded gun in the living room of his house at 509 E. Dunlap St. That's where Jacarion Gladden suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the chest, arrest warrants show.
The 2-year-old's mother, Toni Lashay Gladden, 26, knew her live-in boyfriend, Shazeem Tyrell Hayes, 18, often kept the handgun unsecured in the living room, according to arrest warrants.
Hayes told police he placed his "loaded 9 mm handgun down in the living room of his house," then "walks away from the living room area and a short time later a gunshot was heard from inside the residence," according to the warrants.
The warrant states: "Hayes and Toni Gladden (the child's mother) came back into the living room and located victim, Jacarion Gladden, a 2-year-old child, with a gunshot wound to the his chest lying on the couch. Hayes and Gladden then loaded the child up into a car and attempted to drive the child to Springs Memorial Hospital but crashed the car on the way."
The warrant says Jacarion later died at the hospital.
Police and prosecutors won't discuss more details of the case.
Hayes is charged with felony unlawful conduct toward a child. His bond was denied.
Hayes is on probation from a 2016 conviction for weapons and burglary, according to court records and probation officials.
He pleaded guilty to the charges in August 2016 after an arrest in April 2016. He received 18 months probation and a Youthful Offender Act sentence of up to five years, said Pete O'Boyle, spokesman for the S.C. Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.
As a convicted felon, Hayes could be prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Gladden was arrested and is charged with misprision of a felony and unlawful conduct toward a child. She has been released on $60,000 bond.
Karla Knight Deese, Lancaster County coroner, responded to Springs Memorial Hospital in Lancaster after 8 p.m. Monday. An autopsy confirmed he died from a single gunshot, Deese said in a statement.
Lancaster Police Chief Scott Grant said at a Tuesday news conference Gladden made an "obvious attempt" to "mislead investigators and hamper this investigation."
The arrest warrant says Gladden "did knowingly, willingly and unlawfully withhold pertinent information" and gave "several different statements in an effort to mislead law enforcements efforts pursuing the true suspect."
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Discussion in 'General Off-Topic Chat' started by BORTZ, Dec 30, 2007.
is use it like a cell phone! how cool would that be?
Call Natrium42, get a sim card reader/writer, rip apart a cell phone, and tell us how it goes.
Natrium42 + sim card + half of cell phone + Chrism = new DS cellphone addon and phone homebrew.
That would be pretty cool..but you would have to have a sim card reader.
You can use SvSIP on your DS for a cell phone.
Costello posted this a while back and it got a ton of hits:
SvSIP topic
Off topic- Why'd you create two topics for this?
On topic- Any idea where you can get an sip account easily and for free?
to off topic: i didnt mean to. i posted once and i couldnt find it so i posted in a better place.i recently found it so i should close the other one. sorry im retarded.


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Sam Smith Wows With 'Lay Me Down' At The iHeartRadio Music Awards
It's Sam Smith's world and we're just living in it! The amazing singer stunned the crowd with his pre-taped performance of 'Lay Me Down' at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards. Not to mention, he did it in style!
Sam Smith, wasn't there in body, but in video at the Shrine in Los Angeles, on March 29 during the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards. He belted out Lay Me Down in a pre-taped performance which honestly, left us speechless. Can we all agree Sam deserves all the recognition he gets?
Sam Smith's iHeartRadio Music Awards Performance
Sam is nothing less than amazing! The singer wasn't able to attend the actual show tonight, but still gave an amazing pre-taped performance for viewers and the audience at the Shrine that blew us all away.
He gave a soothing rendition of Lay Me Down, and was helped out with an entire orchestra. We loved how amazing all of the instruments sounded together. We wouldn't have expected anything less from Sam!
Nick Jonas & More Hot Hunks At The 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards
Not only did he sound amazing, he looked so handsome. He was dressed in a crisp dark suit with a striped collared shirt.
Sam Debuts Dramatic Weight Loss
It was only a few weeks ago that Sam debuted his huge weight loss. The singer posted a picture to his Instagram, showing off his 14lb weight loss that only took him two weeks!
He captioned the snap,"Three weeks ago I met a woman who has completely changed my life. Amelia Freer has helped me lose over a stone in 2 weeks and has completely transformed my relationship with food. Everyone go check out her incredible book, and start to live healthy. It's not even about weight loss it's about feeling happy in yourself. Love you Amelia & thank you for making me feel so happy inside and out @ameliafreer #eatnourishglow."
Sam looks incredible and we're happy to hear he is loving his new healthier lifestyle!
HollywoodLifers — did you enjoy Sam's performance at the iHeartRadio Music Awards? Let us know your thoughts below!
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Frans Hals was born into the family of a cloth-maker of Dutch origin in c. 1581-85. The family lived in Flanders, in Micheln, and Frans was born either in Micheln, or Antwerp. Later the family returned to Holland, to Haarlem, where his younger brother, Dirck, also a future painter, was born in 1591.
c.1619-20. Oil on canvas. 86 x 65 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
c.1622. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
c.1623-25. Oil on canvas. 62 x 54.5 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
c.1624-1627. Oil on canvas. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
c.1625. Oil on canvas. 76 x 52 cm. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel, Germany.
c.1625-30. Oil on canvas. 204.5 x 134.5 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
c. 1626-28. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK.
c.1627-33. Oil on canvas. 183 x 277 cm. Frans-Hals-Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands.
1627. Oil on canvas. 179 x 257.5 cm, Frans-Hals-Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands.
c.1627-30. Oil on canvas. The Frick Collection, New York, USA.
c.1627. Oil on canvas. 20 x 14 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
c.1628-30. Oil on canvas. 81 x 66.5 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
c.1628-30. Oil on canvas. 58 x 52 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
c.1629-30. Oil on canvas. 74 x 64 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
c.1629. Oil on canvas. 139 x 102.5 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1629. Oil on canvas. 139 x 103 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
c.1630. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
c.1630. Oil on canvas. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain.
c.1630-33. Oil on canvas. 75 x 58 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
c.1630-33. Oil on canvas. 75 x 58 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Frans Hals: The Complete Work by Claus Grimm, Jurgen Riehle. Harry N Abrams, 1990.


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When creating a book display showing "Mystery" books we created a tagxedo word cloud using synonyms for mystery. I like how so many of the words also apply to wondering.
This week I was paid a huge compliment by a colleague when he was discussing some course readings on a forum. The reading was an article by Barbara Fister entitled "Playing for Keeps: Rethinking How Research Is Taught to Today's College Students" My colleague shared about how we use the Wonder of the Week and invite our school community to answer the question we post on the library door. This week's question "How do hibernating animals know when to wake up?"
Anyway here are some responses to my colleague's post: The example of the post it note allowed students to engage without the pressures of the right answer or proper procedure which brings learning back to one of its essential properties, inquisitiveness. Setting a challenge but not prescribing the path to success enables students to find their own way, in their own time, allowing for ownership of the process."
"I also really appreciate the examples you gave of incorporating play into the library. The post-it example facilitates intrinsic motivation by piquing students' curiosity through an interesting question. It also creates a version of the collaborative research environment Kuhlthau describes by allowing students to see other approaches and responses to the question."
Simmons, Michelle. "LIBR:287: Information Literacy." Lesson #5 Discussion. San Jose State University, 2013. Web. 3 March 2013.
Simmons, Michelle. "LIBR:287: Information Literacy." Lesson #5 Discussion. San Jose State University, 2013. Web. 3 March 2013.
I was so delighted by these responses. I had never thought of the wonder door as achieving these things but it really does. Inquiry at play. My kind of inquiry learning. Barbara's article is worth the read as well.
So we continue to encourage wondering, mystery and play in our library. It is a learning process for us and the students at the same time.


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Breeder: Mary L. Schrader
Sire: Adeline's Silas of Lake Oconee
Dam: Hunter's Sunny Cheyenne
Whelped: December 14, 2015
Country: US Sex: B
Color: White and black Points:
About Dallas
Hunter's Dallas Diva is from the Hunter D litter. She is very distinctive with her white and black coloration.
She is very leggy like her mom. She takes her name to heart and is something of a diva. She does things in her own time and with a certain flare. She eats very slowly and lady like.
She went to a beginning obedience class with her sisters and did well.
She is Glanzman's clear by parentage and is current on all shots. She has had blood submitted for the DNA study.
Dallas Pedigree available on the Otterhound Club of America site
Pictures of Dallas the Otterhound
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Thursday, February 11, 2016
Random Thoughts in EDUC8845
Or is it time to raise the bar?
I posted a query in a class discussion board yesterday morning. No response. I know had I posted on Twitter someone, even @paulrwood, would have responded. And this is the innovative climate to which I have grown accustomed. So do I become discouraged and give up or do I continue to raise the bar and insist that the education for which I am paying drag itself into the global era?
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Siemens, G. (2008, January 27). Learning and knowing in networks: Changing roles for educators and designers. Paper presented to ITFORUM. Retrieved from http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/Paper105/Siemens.pdf
Update: This is a reposting of a post from 2010, during one of my doctoral courses at Walden. I would add that I now work with an innovator, an educator, and totally amazing lady who has been in 'my circle of the wise' since 2006 @coolcatteacher
Posted by Lisa Durff at 2:00 AM
3 comments:
- Durff said...
I struggle with connectivism being a theory equivalent with behaviorism, cognitivism, or constructionism. It would appear we have always had networks, even Aristotle's students learned in a network. The speed of transmission has changed, indeed, but I struggle with the idea that what has always existed is somehow new. Am I missing something integral to this concept?
- December 9, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- featheredflowers said...
I commented on your post in the discussion board. Thank you for posting to my discussion on Classroom 2.0. I guess some of us are ready and willing to share here, there, everywhere regardless of how little our time allows. It's hard to constantly keep up on putting your thoughts out there. I love taking it all in though.
Doing my best,
- December 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM
- featheredflowers said...
I responded to your post in class. Thank you for bantering with me on Classroom 2.0 as well. Given the speed at which our lives depend with the influx of technology related to everything it get difficult to keep up on both sides of the networked learning. I love to take it all in but sometimes don't balance my absorbing with my sharing.
Doing my best,
- December 10, 2010 at 11:36 AM


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The nights are drawing in, the air is damp and dewy and Halloween is almost here. Your thoughts might be turning to pumpkin carving and the feast of horror films on the TV, but nature is getting ready for the spookiest day of the year as well. Some of its scariest species are quite literally popping up overnight...
The dog stinkhorn pokes harmlessly up from the woodland floor, but don't get too close - it smells terrible! Photo by David Osborn (rspb-images.com)
The fungi foray season is here and there's no better place to find our fantastic array of frighteningly-named fungi than your local wood, so get looking! You might be surprised just how many you can find in your local park or garden though.
The spooky hit parade
For someone who spends a lot of time in the wilds, I admit to being easily spooked. A vivid imagination and one too many scary films make imagination go into overdrive. Flashbacks to The Blair Witch Project sharpen my senses, especially when I've wandered "off piste" in the woods with my head down looking for fungi!
Top of my hit list to find is the quite frankly terrifying looking devil's fingers. If I bumbled into one of these burnt flesh-esque fungi sticking out of the ground, I'd probably panic a bit – before punching the air with joy. This is a real rarity.
Devil's fingers (also called octopus stinkhorn) is one of our most disgusting -looking fungi. Photo by Mike Read (rspb-images.com).
Lots of other eerily-named species are easier to come by. Destroying angel, jelly-ear, deathcap, stinkhorn, sickener, scarlet elfcup, yellow brain, ugly milkcap, slimy and bloodred waxcap, poisonpie, snakeskin grisette and black witches butter are just some of the frightening fungi you could find this autumn.
The stinkhorn is another species to enjoy from a distance - you might well smell them before you see them. Think rotting flesh... Photo by Mark Gurney.
Dancing with the fairies
It's not just me with an overactive imagination. Throughout history, the sudden appearance of fungi has led people to believe dark forces were at work. Various legends put the appearance of fairy rings (formed by the fairy ring champignon) down to fairies setting up a place for them dance - and rest on the toadstools afterwards. Some felt that dire consequences awaited anyone foolhardy enough to enter a fairy ring, including becoming enslaved in the fairies' underground realm.
Elf cups come in a variety of colours - these are green elf cups. Photo by Nick Upton (rspb-images.com).
Legends aside, there's a very scary serious side to fungi. Deaths occur regularly due to people eating one of the many poisonous species, so look but don't touch.
It might look harmless, but the deathcap is responsible for human fatalities every year. Photo by Mark Gurney.
It's not just weird and wonderful names though. Fungi come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes – and colours, from puffballs and parasols to cups and brackets. Look for the perfectly purple amethyst deceiver and the brick red fly agaric, topped with white spots, but if you see a pixie perched on one, don't panic...
Go on a fungi forayWhy not try our fungi bingo when you're out and about this autumn? And please leave a comment to let us know about any more fungi - or other wildlife - with a suitably scary. or weird, name. There are plenty more lurking out there...
When you work at RSPB HQ as I do, a lot of the exciting events going on around our nature reserves and our species protection work are followed through a computer screen, so it's great to get out to see it for myself when I can.
Bank Holiday provided me with an opportunity to see what has been one of the most exciting avian events of the summer for me – the nesting bee-eaters in Cumbria that have been under close guard for several weeks.
Although I have seen two of the previous nesting attempts by bee-eaters in the UK (County Durham in 2002 and Herefordshire in 2005), plus a migrant flock of five birds in Norfolk, the chance to see this most dazzling of species in the north of England was too much. Staying in North Yorkshire with the in-laws provided me with a chance to make a shorter journey (still over two hours each way) to see the action for myself.
Bee-eaters excavate their own tunnel in a cliff face or bank - image by Andy Hay
I knew that the birds in the remaining successful nest would be close to fledging and deep down I had a hope that I might be extra jammy and watch the youngsters leaving their burrow in the cliff face...
Late risersI headed north just after 6am on a cold, wet an rainy morning, not the sort of weather I associate with bee-eaters. I was so keen that I even arrived before the RSPB team had set up the watchpoint!
One thing I hadn't accounted for was the fact that bee-eaters can be late risers, waiting for the temperature to warm up so they can do what they do best as insects take to the wing. It was a long wait of an hour and a half of staring at some quarry machinery, a high bank and straining my ears for the "Quelp" call before one of the adults finally appeared.
It was worth the wait because the pair, plus their "helper" male gave superb views through my telescope and were feeding well. As things warmed up, they started to take food to the next tunnel but I couldn't see anything in the hole.
One of the bee-eaters from the 2002 nesting attempt in County Durham - image by Andy Hay
I'm hoping that the young will fledge either today or tomorrow and fingers crossed they make their way safely to Africa for winter. Great work by Hanson, the RSPB staff in the field and the many volunteers who have given up their time to look after the bee-eaters. Thank you for the opportunity to see these wonderful birds.
Ripples in the river
My other Bank Holiday treat was walking with the family and chatting about trout when we watched as ripple from what we thought was the creature in question, only to see it was an otter fishing in the River Wharfe. We followed it up and down the river, but it was always one dive ahead of us!
The Bank Holiday excitement started with an otter - image by Ben Andrew
With Nature's Home October issue signed off yesterday, it's been a busy few days, but where wildlife is involved (and there aren't many parts of my life where it isn't!) there's never a dull moment.


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This project is being implemented by the Coordinadora Nacional de Radio (CNR), a non-profit civil association that coordinates more than 70 communal and educational radios in Peru. The project´s objective is to provide training in order to strengthen the production capacities of 16 community and educational radios of the CNR network; it also intends to enhance their role as social actors offering information to citizens and promoting dialogue and civic participation. A strong emphasis will be put on providing greater access to information to the citizens of disadvantaged and excluded sectors of Peru, and promoting their participation in the decentralisation process, which started in 2001.


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A comparative analysis of strategies for design promotion in different national contexts
Raulik-Murphy, Gisele
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Design promotion takes place when there is a need to inform companies, governments or citizens about the benefits design can offer for economic and social development, and how to take full advantage of them. It can take several forms such as design programmes, support services for businesses and design policies. Although design promotion is practised widely in countries around the world, there is little academic research or background theory to support its advancement. Therefore, this thesis developed an approach to understanding design promotion, its rationale, scope, terminologies, practices and its potential development, through three key studies: (1) a historical review of design promotion; (2) a survey of current practices and their interrelation with economic development; and (3) case studies of design promotion practices in India, Brazil, Korea and Finland. This four-subject sample was then explored in a comparative analysis, which addressed the main objective of this research: the investigation of design promotion strategies in countries at different stages of economic development. Through grounded theory, a seven-category framework emerged from data to guide the comparative analysis. In the conclusions drawn by this research, significant differences were identified between advanced economies (represented by Korea and Finland) and developing countries (represented by India and Brazil) in four of the categories: rationale; design policy; national design system; and national context. In the other three categories (design programmes; design education; and professional design sector), differences were identified in the individual countries, but there was no evidence to support any generalisation that would characterise contrasting approaches at different stages of economic development. Following the investigation of the individual categories, this research examined their interrelation, which resulted in the recommendation of avenues for further research in the field of design promotion, such as the investigation of systemic failures in national design systems, and the political and economic factors that affect the implementation of national design policies.
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Jurassic World: A Fanboy's Review
22 years ago, a 9 year old version of me watched what would become my favorite movie in my hometown movie theater (along with my way too young brothers). 1993 was the year that ushered Jurassic Park onto the silver screen and to a 9 year old boy that was already crazy for dinosaurs that slept on a bed with a headboard covered in dinosaur toys, this came at the exact right time for me. The years that followed the merchandising was incredible: my dinosaur toys were joined by velociraptors, Jurassic Park characters and vehicles and the awesome Compound Center to contain them in…not nearly enough fencing though. As I grew, the sequels followed as did video games where I'd hunt as a velociraptor or use stun weapons against them and in recent years, I've re-created my childhood vision of Jurassic Park with Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis or the mobile game where you create a functional Jurassic Park (while pleasing bitchy guests that don't appreciate what you have made for them or get all pissy if someone gets eaten). Needless to say, like many kids Jurassic Park was literally my childhood. So when it was announced that Jurassic World was going back to Isla Nublar (the first island from the first movie) and would involve a functional park, I was overjoyed! In fact WAYYY back in 2011 when I did a Jurassic Park Week on this site, I made a column of the pros and cons of making a 4th film. I more or less begged that we should go back to the first island! So now that a new box office record has been crushed here's my overview of Jurassic World now that I've had time to breathe:
After 2 disappointing or mixed-reception-at-best sequels, a fourth Jurassic Park film was long rumored but spent well over a decade in Development Hell which yielded some really odd directions that the franchise was allegedly heading towards (but still possible but more on that later). Although 14 years since last seeing a Jurassic Park movie in theaters was a very long wait, I'm a bit happy to see it thrown in at a time where other beloved franchises are either well established (Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America) or a few years at most from launching (Justice League, Deadpool, Wonder Woman, ect) . It's a good time to be alive to see Jurassic Park on the same marquee sign as Avengers and Ant-Man. It was definitely a welcome return.
As for the movie itself, I'll get to the point and say what I thought about it: I loved it! It's every bit of the sequel that the original movie deserved. While some people are quick to dismiss the sequels as terrible follow-ups, they did bring us a few exciting moments as more dinosaurs were brought in (Lost World with Stegosaurus and JPIII with the Ankylosaurs) so it's hard to fully hate them, but with the vibe that Jurassic World gives, you can probably be safe in disregarding the other sequels as they are not mentioned at all (they may no longer be canon). Jurassic World definitely brought a lot of emotions. To see a functional park was absolute joy for me and there were moments that made me laugh, a ton of moments that made me joyful with nostalgia and some moments that even made me sad. So the feels were in overdrive for this movie. There were tons of shout outs to the original film and overall it was a blast to return to Isla Nublar. So much fun, that I almost for a bit just wanted a regular day in Jurassic World to be the entire film.
With it being a Jurassic Park movie, it goes without saying that the dinosaurs are the true stars and the reason we watch these films. Unlike the Spinosaurus of Jurassic Park III, which was quite hated, I found the genetically modified Indominus Rex a lot more fun as the movie's big threat. In defense of the Spinosaurus though, it turns out that it used to be a pretty cool crocodile/duck-esque terror beast of a dinosaur in real life and is quite fascinating to read about. Indominus was pretty fun and as a character Indominus is definiely a tragic one (although it does a few dick-ish things but I suppose it didn't know better since she's still very young). You do feel a bit sorry for her and her upbringing and you do cheer for her at times and shake your head in disapproval minutes later when she kills a dinosaur that you didn't want her to. On a similar note, the velociraptors, which has long been a fan favorite despite being the "bad guys", are now trained and part of Chris Pratt's bad ass "Raptor Pack". With names of Blue, Charlie, Echo and Delta, it's very easy to get attached to them and they do feel like 4 individual characters as opposed to just being "the raptors that will probably kill someone in an awesome way" like in past films. Finally, Rex-y may be 22 years older (she's the same one from the first film) but still every bit of a bad ass and the new kid on the block, Mosasaur was great to see. That alone is why Jurassic World isn't just another dinosaur follow-up to the original. This might be the first time you actually feel an emotional connection to the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park series. I mean we felt bad for the sick Triceratops, I sorta feel for that last velociraptor in the first movie when she charges the Rex with pure rage for killing her pack mate and we all were collectively livid when a Rex was killed by the Spinosaurus, but somehow this time, the connection to the dinosaurs seem a bit stronger and more genuine.
As for the dinosaur's human counterparts we still get annoying kids (a staple of the series at this point), but they are completely overshadowed by Chris Pratt who really carries the human side of the movie. We don't get the humor he's known for with the exception of a few chuckles but he plays the action star role really well. Irrfan Khan's character Simon Masrani is the carrier of the "John Hammond legacy" and sadly we don't get to see a ton of scenes with him. Dallas Bryce Howard is arguably the movie's main character (with Pratt as the love interest) as we see her character grow throughout the film the most…all the while running from dinosaurs in high heels…ouch. I also strongly feel that Jake Johnson's character sort of represents some of us hardcore fans of the original film down to his defense of wanting to honor the original park (or more accurately we all represent the guests of Jurassic World clamoring for something new, fresh and dangerous).
After a record breaking opening weekend it's all but confirmed that we'll be seeing the dinos on the big screen sooner than later. However, I do have a slight concern for the future that will venture into spoiler-territory ( Skip to the next paragraph now until you've seen the movie…I'll wait): So with the subplot of wanting to use the velociraptors and other genetically modified dinosaurs for military purposes, I'm severely worried that the follow-up will involve this plan coming to fruition. While I doubt it'll look like what Jurassic Park could have become with weird dinosaur hybrids with soldiers….yes that is something that happened during the Development Hell phase (or maybe it didn't); I feel that it'll take away the wonderment of the films and go back to mindless murdering monsters that made Lost World and JPIII not as enjoyable as Jurassic World or Jurassic Park. I'm not saying it can't work (Daniel Craig as Bond worried me back in the day and he became a favorite, so I love being proved wrong). As much as I'll like to see another round at Isla Nublar, at this point it'll probably not happen given how many people died, the park won't re-open without some major PR spin doctors. So Nublar is likely out, save for maybe a scene or so (hopefully to recruit Blue who I seriously hope became hunting friends with Rexy). Isla Sorna would be interesting to see again now that we've had a break from going there, but I feel whatever becomes the next movie it'll probably not take place on an island at all and we'll see the dinosaurs reach the mainland and/or we'll see Dr. Wu's genetic monsters either used for military or sold to the highest bidder (a good opportunity to bring Dogson's company Biosyn back to the movies which might be cool). It could be fun and could end similarly to the bomb filled ending of the novel, but dinosaurs on the mainland or in a warzone likely means less dinosaurs (at least nice herbivores). So I'll be crossing my fingers that this fresh re-launch of the series doesn't become short-lived and continue on the same momentum that Jurassic World has started. I also seriously won't mind if it ends here with Rexy roaring in triumph while standing tall as queen of her island on Isla Nublar, but there's too much money to think this is the last romp in the Jurassic Park series.
(END Spoiler-y rant): Overall much like the weeks that followed way back in 1993, I am still unable to shake constant dinosaur thoughts out of my mind or stop bringing it up into daily conversation (I'm not ashamed to admit I even bought some merchandise to further personalize my desk at work). I'm a kid all over again and I'm sure I'll probably pay another visit to the park while still in theaters. It'll be a crime not to see it on the big screen as intended (or multiple times). Welcome back Jurassic Park, we've missed you!


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